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Edmund Burke: top 200 quotes
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Journalism (n.) is the fourth estate, which is to say, that, alongside the three 'estates' in parliament, the reporter's gallery is by far most important in terms of guiding the direction of the state.
The Ocean (n.) is an object of no small terror.
Justice (n.) is never safe when a separation is made between it and liberty.
Justice (n.) is itself the great standing policy of civil society... and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
Equality (n.) is a leveling that is never achieved by those who attempt to equalize.
Greatness's (n.) nature is not to be exact.
Community (n.) is the notion that no men can act with effect who do not act in concert... that no men can act in concert who do not act with confidence... and that no men can act with confidence who are not bound together with common opinions, common affections, and common interests.
Art (n.) is a partnership not only between those who are living but between those who are dead and those who are yet to be born.
Truth (n.) is like with all virtues in that there is an economy thereof, and so one speaks truth with measure, that he may speak it the longer.
Man (n.) is a religious animal by his very constitution.
Man (n.) is, for Burke, not simple natural man, but intricate and complexly civilized man, focused not on what we may or may not have once been, but on how well we conform to divine intent.
Man (n.) is not to be considered as man-as-such (as he is at his primitive worst) but as man at his highest, civilized form insofar as human custom conforms to divine intent.
Man (n.) is small, and that the individuals would do better to avail themselves of the general bank and capital of nations and of ages.